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Bylaugh One weekend, in the fall of 2003, saw a series of Tango workshops held in the recently-refurbished Orangery of Bylaugh Hall in Norfolk. Rodolfo Aguerrodi and Miho Omaki led workshops with a small group of local or temporarily resident participants on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - morning and afternoon. We also visited the local milonga in Norwich on the Friday night. These notes are abridged "aides-memoire"; you do need Rodolfo and Miho's coaching to fully understand what is going on. |
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The third of the workshops focused on linear sacadas: |
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First we heard that a sacada is a displacement of an unweighted leg due to an obstacle being in its path as it tries to move to its next position. |
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Then we practised moving fluently in and out of cross system: |
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| Starting in offset parallel with leader to left of follower ... | |||||||||
| ... we moved until leader's right foot was forward ... | |||||||||
| .. then leader crossed left behind right, moving right foot forward in one beat to enter cross system ... | |||||||||
| .. then leader stepped forward on left in cross-system .. | |||||||||
| .. then leader crossed right behind left, moving left foot forward in one beat to re-enter parallel system ... | |||||||||
| ... repeating until we got it, or for several tangos | |||||||||
Then we tried an exercise to rehearse the linear sacada movement: |
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| Leader led a step to the left on his left foot ... | |||||||||
| ... leader closed right to left moving his right foot forward into the mordita as follower closed her left foot against her right ... | |||||||||
| ... leader took a short step back on his left leg drawing his follower forward but without weight onto her left leg ... | |||||||||
| ... leader, while remaining facing forward with his torso, dissociated so his hips faced ~15 (angle determined by relative position of follower's axis) to the right and stepped - slightly diagonally - into the space behind follower's left foot, making thigh contact to displace her leg ... | |||||||||
| ... leader stepped slightly diagonally to close left to right with torso still facing forward to maintain the linearity of the move and with hips facing ~15 right | |||||||||
We then walked in offset parallel to a cross, without stopping at the cross: |
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| ... leader, while remaining facing forward with his torso, dissociated so his hips faced ~15 (angle determined by relative position of follower's axis) to the right and stepped - slightly diagonally - into the space behind follower's left foot, making thigh contact to displace her left leg ... | |||||||||
| .. leader, while remaining facing forward with his torso, dissociated so his hips faced ~15 (angle determined by relative position of follower's axis) to the left and stepped - slightly diagonally - into the space behind follower's right foot, making thigh contact to displace her right leg ... | |||||||||
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